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Registration Details

Date: 17 December 1800

Registrant: Moore, James

Historical County: Chester

Modern County: Chester

Residence: West Nantmeal

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Spence, John

Date of Birth: 5 November 1800

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: July

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: "property of James Moore Esqr"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Moore, James

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: "Negro Servant Returns, 1788-1821," RG-4100, Clerk of Courts and Quarter Sessions, Chester County Archives and Record Services, West Chester, PA
  • Clerk registry: "A Census of the Slaves in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1780-1815," p. 44, Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (MS 717), Box 3, Folder 8, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT